Florist&#39;s stick



March 10, 1925- 1,529,315

C. H. LEWIS FLORIST S STICK Filed Feb. 21, 1922 Patented Mar. 10, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FLORISTS STICK.

Application filed February 21, 1922. Serial No. 538,305.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. LEWIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Putnam Valley, in the county of Putnam and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Florists Sticks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sticks that are used by florists for attachment to the stems of flowers in the making of set pieces of floral designs. One means of securing a wire to the stick is by means of a hole in the end of the stick. The object of this invention is to provide a simple, convenient and inexpensive means tor securing the wire to the stick.

The object is attained by the means setforth in this specification and the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is an elevation of a stick showing a notch on its side. Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the stick with the notch towards the observer. Fig. 3 represents an upper section of a stick with a wire wound thereon. Fig. 4 represents the method of securing the wire on the stick by hand. Fig. 5 represents a stick with the wire thereto, the wire binding a stem to the stick. Fig. 6 shows a modification of the notch as formed in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1 represents a stick a of natural size, one end of the stick pointed. In the other end or head of the stick is a notch b. The notch need not be of any particular size or shape, its object being to afford a spot near the head of the stick that shall have a periphery loss than that of the stick, so that when a wire is wound around the stick within the notch, as in Fig. 3, the diameter of the wire convolutions will have a less diameter than the body of the stick, the object being to so attach the wire to the stick that the wire cannot slip off the stick.

Fig. 4 shows a simple hand winding method. A thin, soft wire is employed, so that it remains in the position to which it is bent. Holding the stick in the hand, the end 0 of the wire is held against the stick by the thumb, while the end 0 of the wire is turned about the stick for two or three convolutions (l, as in the figure, the convolutions falling within the notch. It is obvious that the stick cannot be withdrawn from the coiled wire. It is also obvious that the precise form of the notch is immaterial; it may be a simple indentation cut or pressed therein, as at b, Fig. 6, since the one material object is to have some convolutions of the wire wound enough smaller than the diameter of the stick to prevent the easy removal of the coil.

Fig. 5 indicates the manner of using the sticks. A flower stem is indicated at f secured to the stick by the coiling around it and the stick of the long end 0 of the wire, the wire being unremovable from the stick by reason of the coils in the notch.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a florists stick for attaching cards to flower pieces, astick pointed at one end, the blunt end of the stick provided with a notch on its side, and a card tie-wire given one or more turns around the stick a convolution of the wire wound to fall within the said notch,

CHARLES H. LEWVIS. 

